Hack Til You Drop With Our Shopified Holiday Developer Contest

With barely enough time to recover from your tryptophan-induced Turkey Day coma, the holiday shopping season is already upon us. Black Friday sales grabbed big headlines over the weekend, setting up what promises to be a record breaking Cyber Monday, and pushing us all into a commerce-fueled frenzy of flash sales and irresistable savings.

We’re not immune to the rush of deep discounts here at Twilio, so we are teaming up with our friends at Shopify for the holiday cure for the ordinary developer contest. Shopify serves up a next-gen one-stop-solution for setting up a complete online store, with tools for handling all aspects of selling goods online. Using Shopify’s killer RESTful API with Twilio Voice, SMS and Client, this week’s contest is aimed at creating eCommerce awesome.

Shopify + Twilio = Holiday Happiness

Shopify’s super simple toolset for creating and running online storefronts combined with Twilio’s telephonic fantasticness serves up a sweet opportunity for hackers to leverage the holiday shopping season. Here’s a few ideas that came immediately to mind:

What’s This Developer Contest About?

Every two weeks, we encourage developers to build something awesome with a Twilio-powered contest. As a language agnostic platform for cloud communications, we want developers of every shape, size and stripe to solve problems and grab a little glory using Twilio. To kickstart the creative process, we’ve run these developer contests for over a year.